“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth”

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”

“Fourscore and seven years ago...”

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

“you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”